Determinism

[Caecilian]

@ rabbit:

I can't see any difference between your contra-causal free will and libertarianism; essentially its a re-phrasing of the libertarian position.

Since neither of us believe in supernatural shit anyway, I don't really see the point in nit-picking with you over what its supposed to mean. Why do the theists philosophical work for them?

Caecilian Wrote:
I'd go somewhat further than you re. the problem of supernatural causation. As far as I'm concerned, the whole notion is incoherent. Theres a nice argument in one of Jaegwon Kim's books- 'Physicalism, or Something Near Enough'- that strongly indicates that this is the case. If you're interested, I'd be happy to run through it- its yet another strong philosophical argument against the theist position, so worth having in ones armoury.

I am interested indeed.

Excellent. I was thinking of posting something about this anyway, but I wasn't sure if I'd have an audience. Now that I know that I'll have an audience of at least one person, I'll do it.

However, I'm going to do it properly. Will be posting a short essay in the Philosophy section some time in the next few days.